Mansha Daswani

Jennifer Batty, head of content acquisitions in Europe, and Aline Jabbour, business development director for Latin America, discussed their acquisition and partnership strategies for Samsung TV Plus at the FAST Festival today.

Jens Richter, CEO of commercial and international at Fremantle, outlined how the company is tapping into its vast catalog to deliver a suite of single-IP and multi-genre services at the FAST Festival.

Matt Schnaars, president of content distribution at NBCUniversal, discussed how the company is approaching FAST channel opportunities at the FAST Festival.

Marcos Milanez, the chief content officer at Rakuten TV, told FAST Festival viewers about the European platform’s FAST channel bouquet and approach to acquisitions and originals.

Haymi Behar, chief marketing and digital officer at SPI International, told FAST Festival delegates about how the CANAL+ Group-owned company is tapping into its long history of operating pay-TV channels as it expands into the FAST space.

Olivier Jollet, executive VP and international general manager at Pluto TV, delivered a keynote at the FAST Festival on what’s driving viewership gains at the Paramount-owned AVOD service.

ITV Studios’ Graham Haigh, Cineflix Rights’ Mike Gould, Banijay Rights’ Shaun Keeble and All3Media International’s Gary Woolf talked about how their companies are pursuing opportunities in FAST as the FAST Festival kicked off today.

Kicking off on Tuesday, July 25, the virtual FAST Festival will feature sessions on all segments of the booming FAST business; register today to make sure you receive access to our post-event White Paper delivering key intel from the event in a compact, easy-to-digest format.

Korean content continues to drive online viewing across Asia according to a new report from Media Partners Asia (MPA), accounting for 50 percent of SVOD viewing and 42 percent of freemium views in the first half of this year.

Netflix reported second-quarter revenues of $8.2 billion and ended the period with 238.4 million subscribers, adding 5.9 million in the period.